Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-21
THE ssBATH OF ISIS.
Waters Used by the Egyptian Women to
Beautify the Complexion.

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Waters Used by the Egyptian Women to
Beautify the Compilations.
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The Egyptian princesses were re-
nowned for their beauty above all the
women of the earth, from the earliest
records down to Cleopatra's time. CAS-
beautiful as princess of Egypt" was
the superlative of comparison. No
women in the world ever had such COM
plexions or such skins, and there is
nothing in the world to-day to compare
with the skins of the mummies of
women taken from the tombs. This
distinction lasted over a period of 5000
Years, and was commonly attributed to
the bath of ISIS" which was preserved
for them with such Jealous care; but it
was really more owing to inheritance
and the climate, united to perfect
health and phenomenal cleanliness,
than to the lotion. There never was
any secret about its oomponents. It
was made from lotus water and the adj
pocere of a rabbit. The trouble was to
get the adipocere. None but the Mem
phian and Saisan priests knew how to
convert the dead rabbit into adipocere.
This secret they kept, and to this day it
is not known how they did it, although
there are dozen ways now by which it
can be done. The lotus water was
made by distillation, as rose water is
now made, and was in as common use
among the Egyptian women as rose wa
ter is with the American. The adj.
pocere was prepared in some way by
which the saccharized Gil was extracted,
making it identical with our glycerine,
by removing the waxy portion of the
fatty matter. Cheops ruined himself
by building his pyramid. His daughter
then demanded from each one of her
lovers the present of single stone,
and with those given her by them she
built the middle pyramid Of the three
facing her fathers. She had over fif-
teen thousand lovers The priests of
Memphis for this reason refused to
grant any of the sacred "bath of Isis"
to her, and one of her lovers, who was q
priest, revealed the secret of the prepa-
ration Of the adipocere. This secret
may have passed down in her family,
but must soon have been lost, for
they couldn't get the adipocere to pre-
pare. If the bath was used by any of
the Byzantine expresses, they probably
used the adipocere known to them,
which was not of rabbits, but of human
beings and horses. It could not have
been of very good quality, as it would
have been unrefned and mixed with
lotus water in the waxy state. Liebig
took the trouble to verify it, to settle
the disputes about the translations.
Lotus water is easy enough to get, as it
is regular preparation in the East for
the skin, corresponding to Florida water
and bay rum with us. He took the
trouble to make the bath first with rab-
bit adipocere, and then with the refined
product of sweet oil; so that he OBJ
tanned the identical "bath of Isis" He
gave it to his friends to experiment
with, and they found the former good
and the latter excellent. He afterward
made it from our rose water and
| glycerine, and this was much better
than either of the others. The proper
tions vary. To keep the skin soft one
third of glycerine to two-thirds of rose
water, and this was probably the pro-
portions in the "bath of ISIS" and its
symbol was thus divided; but Liebig's
experiments showed that half-and-ha
were about the proper proportions
when bringing the skin into condition.
Sixpenny worth lasts month-three-
penny worth of the rose water of COM
merce (made from four drops of rose
oil to an ounce of distilled water) and
threepenny worth of the ordinary
glycerine; but by using the genuine
rose water, made by distillation and
the chemically pure glycerine obtained
by second refning-which cannot be
had at every druggist's-you will get a
much better article than the "bath of
Isis ever was. This lotion is alluded
to in the oldest book in the world, now
in the National Library in Paris-I
mean the one written by Prince Hotep,
and taken from his coffin after it had
lain beside him for over five thousand
eight hundred years. The reason why
our women have bad skins is because
they are not clearly. The Egyptians
were the healthiest people ever known,
and this was because they were the
cleanest. The woman who took only
one bath q day would have been
looked upon as We regard one who
washes but once q year. Linen was
never worn the second time without
washing. The princesses bathed in
diluted lotus water many times daily,
and night and morning used the "bath
of ISIS" they had a regular day each
week for medical treatment, and with
all Egyptian women, devoted three
days in each month to medicines to
keep clean the inside as we'll as the out
side Of their bodies so that had there
been no "baths Of Isis" they would not
have failed to have beautiful complex
ions. This "bath" merely gave their
skin the satin touch and velvet softness
Their perfect health did the rest. With
perfect health alone, their hide might
have been as rough and coarse as that
of hippopotamus, but no "bath"
ever made will bleach the yellow face
of person suffering from jaundice, or
remove the pimples that come from
constitutional weakness and the break
ing up Of cellular tissue.
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